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Louis I. Hoffman family photograph collection, approximately 1890-1950
Overview of the Collection
- Compiler
- Hoffman (Family : Hoffman, Louis I., 1868-1948)
- Title
- Louis I. Hoffman family photograph collection
- Dates
- approximately 1890-1950 (inclusive)18901950
- Quantity
-
.49 cubic feet (2 boxes; 2 folders)
76 photographic prints ; various sizes - Collection Number
- PH0752
- Summary
- Photographs of Louis I. Hoffman family, his clothing stores in New York and Seattle, and other Hoffman family members
- Repository
-
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
-
The collection is open to the public.
- Additional Reference Guides
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by King County 4Culture
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Louis Isaac Hoffman (1868-1948) was a Jewish businessman involved in the clothing trade in New York State; he later relocated to Seattle, Washington, where he opened a series of clothing stores. Hoffman, who married Sarah Rebecca Gottstein (1873-1942) of St. Paul, Minneapolis in 1894, had moved to Seattle by 1907. The couple would have five children; two daughters, Marion and Dorothy, and a son, Jerome, all of whom were born in New York, as well as two daughters who were born in Seattle, Greta Grace (known as Grace, born 27 January 1906) and Louise Irene (born 20 February 1912). Hoffman had specialized in men's furnishings in Ogdensburg, New York, but expanded to women's wear after his arrival in Seattle, where he initially served as the manager of the Novelty Skirt Manufacturing Company. Hoffman operated several clothing stores in Seattle over the years, including the Hoffman Cloak & Suit Company, Paragon Cloak & Suit Company, and the Pants Store.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection contains photographs of the Louis Hoffman family, his clothing stores in New York and Seattle, and other Hoffman family members.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
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Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Clothing Store Business CardsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/1 | 1 | Business card for Hoffman's Cloaks
& Suits Address: 1510 Westlake, at 4th between Pike and Pine, Seattle,
WA
|
undated |
1/1 | 2 | Business card for the Pants Store
Co. Address: 1209 Third Avenue, Seattle, WA
|
undated |
1/1 | 3 | Business card for J. Berkman
Company Address: 220 Jackson Street, Seattle, WA
|
undated |
1/1 | 4 | Business card Newport Clothing Company,
Inc. Address: 149 Fifth Avenue, New York City
|
undated |
Hoffman Cloak & Suit CompanyReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Box/Folder | item | ||
1/2 | 5a-b | Postcard for Hoffman Cloak & Suit
Company showing crowd in front of store for "dollar sale" Postcard 5a shows "Hoffman Cloak & Suit Co." graphic over
store entrance. Postcard 5b does not have the graphic and shows less of the
store front. Date of sale indicated on postcard as October 11, 1909
|
1908-1909 |
box-folder:oversize | |||
2/1 | 6a |
Exterior of the Novelty Skirt
Manufacturing Company with crowd in front for "dollar sale", 1316 Second
Avenue, Seattle "Hoffman Cloak & Suit Co. Inc." inked over photo. Served as
the basis for the postcards. Date on reverse, August, 3, 1908, conflicts with
date of sale indicated on postcard
|
1908-1909 |
box:oversize | |||
XH3 | 6b | Exterior of the Novelty Skirt
Manufacturing Company with a different view of the crowd in front for dollar
sale |
circa 1908-1909 |
box-folder:oversize | |||
2/1 | 7 |
Storefront of the Novelty Skirt
Manufacturing Company with mannequins in windows Note on reverse reads "Aug. 3, 190-" while a very similar
picture in the advertisement indicates October 11, 1909
|
circa 1909 |
Box/Folder | |||
1/2 | 8 |
Exterior of the Hoffman Cloak &
Suit Company with crowd in front Jacobs Photo Shop,
Seattle, Seattle (photographer)
Sign over door reads "Sale of Goldstein and Fisher Stock"Formerly the Novelty Skirt Manufacturing Co.
|
circa 1909 |
box-folder:oversize | |||
2/1 | 9 |
Exterior of Hoffman Cloak & Suit
Company with crowd in front Jacobs Photo Shop,
Seattle (photographer)
Sign over door reads "Wellington Wreck Sale". On March 1, 1910 a
disaster occurred near Wellington, WA when an avalanche derailed two Great
Northern trains killing 96 people
|
1910 |
2/1 | 10 |
Exterior of Hoffman Cloak & Suit
Company with crowd in front Sign in front reads "Hoffman's Annual Dollar Sale"
|
July 25, 1913 |
Box/Folder | |||
1/2 | 11 |
Sewing factory with employees and
(probably) Louis I. Hoffman in back Note on reverse states address as 1316 Second Avenue,
Seattle
|
undated |
Paragon Cloak & Suit CompanyReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Box/Folder | item | ||
1/3 | 12 | circa 1910 | |
1/3 | 13-15 | circa 1910 |
Pants Store CompanyReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Box/Folder | item | ||
1/4 | 16 | undated | |
1/4 | 17 | Pants Store Company storefront with
sign overhead |
undated |
1/4 | 18-19 | undated | |
1/4 | 20a-b |
Interior of Pants Store
Company Photograph 20a served as basis for photograph 20b which is a
postcard with advertising on it.
|
circa 1910 |
1/4 | 21 | Interior of Pants Store
Company |
undated |
1/4 | 22 |
Interior of Pants Store Company with
customers and salesmen Possibly Jerome Hoffman holding pants
|
undated |
1/4 | 23a-b | Pants Store Company storefront with
sign over door reading "Closing-Out Sale" Photograph 23a includes lettering that reads "Pants Store" over
doorway.
|
undated |
Other Hoffman Stores in SeattleReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Box/Folder | item | ||
1/5 | 24 | undated | |
box-folder:oversize | |||
2/2 | 25 |
Possibly the interior of Everybody's
Store with employees Note on reverse states address as 1207 2nd Avenue, Seattle
|
circa 1904-1907 |
Box/Folder | |||
1/5 | 26 | undated | |
1/5 | 27 | Drawing of Hoffman's Women's Apparel
storefront at 1510 Westlake, Seattle made from photograph #26 |
undated |
Boston Clothing Store, Ogdensburg, New YorkReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Box/Folder | item | ||
1/6 | 28-29 | Interior of Boston Clothing Store
showing shelves |
circa 1895-1900 |
1/6 | 30a-b | Two views of the interior of Boston
Clothing Store showing shelves of boxes and counter filled with
goods |
circa 1895-1900 |
1/6 | 31 | Interior of Boston Clothing Store with
employees |
circa 1895-1900 |
1/6 | 32 | 1899 |
Hoffman brothersReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Box/Folder | item | ||
1/7 | 33 | undated | |
1/7 | 34 | Portrait of Louis Hoffman James M. Dow,
Ogdensburg, NY (photographer)
Mr. Hoffman has a Freemasonry button on his jacket
|
undated |
1/7 | 35 | Louis Hoffman with Albert
Wake |
July 4, 1943 |
1/7 | 36 | Portrait of A. Hoffman as young adult James M. Dow ,
Ogdensburg, NY (photographer)
|
undated |
1/7 | 37 |
Portrait of A. Hoffman Braas (photographer)
|
undated |
1/7 | 38 | A. Hoffman as old man, standing on
porch |
undated |
box-folder:oversize | |||
2/2 | 39 |
Portrait of Henry Hoffman Miss White, New
York (photographer)
|
circa 1920 |
Box/Folder | |||
1/7 | 40 | Henry Hoffman holding baby |
1928 |
Hoffman familyReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Box/Folder | item | ||
1/8 | 41 |
Portrait of Sarah R.
Gottstein Haynes, St. Paul,
MN (photographer)
|
August 28, 1893 |
1/8 | 42 | Portrait of Sarah Gottstein Shepherd Photo, St.
Paul, MN (photographer)
|
circa 1893 |
1/8 | 43 | Two small children standing on
porch Home Portrait Co,
Seattle, WA (photographer)
Possibly Jerome and Louise I. Hoffman
|
circa 1895-1905 |
1/8 | 44 | A woman, likely Sarah Gottstein
Hoffman, with children sitting by Long Lake, WA |
1920 |
1/8 | 45 | A woman, likely Sarah Gottstein
Hoffman, and Louis Hoffman with woman at Lake Southerland, WA |
circa 1920 |
1/8 | 46 | A woman, likely Sarah Gottstein
Hoffman, sitting in chair |
circa 1920 |
1/8 | 47 | Two Hoffman sisters looking at
newspaper in front of fireplace Possibly Dorothy and Grace Hoffman
|
circa 1947 |
box:oversize | |||
XH6 | 48 | University of Washington Company D
Students Army Training Corps group photograph Jerome Hoffman is in the second to back row, sixth from the
right.
|
circa 1918 |
Box/Folder | |||
1/8 | 49 | Hoffman family outdoors standing around Louis Hoffman
who is seated |
July 1947 |
1/8 | 50 | Louis Hoffman with his son and
daughters in front of fireplace |
circa 1947 |
1/8 | 51 | circa 1947 | |
1/8 | 52 | Hoffman family sitting in Louise I.
Hoffman's living room Address of Hoffman home is 1249 16th East, Seattle, WA
|
1948 |
1/8 | 53 | Set dining table in Louise I. Hoffman's
home |
1948 |
1/8 | 54 | 1948 | |
1/8 | 55 | Louise I. Hoffman and women seated
around Louise's dining table for baby shower |
circa 1948 |
1/8 | 56 | circa 1905-1910 | |
1/8 | 57 | Portrait of Dorothy Hoffman as young
woman |
circa 1915-1920 |
1/8 | 58 | Louise I. Hoffman wearing fur
coat |
October 1949 |
1/8 | 59 | Louise I. Hoffman with dog Renee
outside |
1971 |
1/8 | 60 | Grace Hoffman walking dog Renee
outside |
August 1970 |
1/8 | 61 | Portrait of Myron E. Hoffman on an
announcement of his appointment to Manager of United Airlines' New York
Mercantile Division |
circa 1960-1970 |
Hoffman Home, 1510 East Columbia, SeattleReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/9 | 62 | circa 1900-1905 | |
1/9 | 63 | House probably with one of the Hoffman
sisters as a child standing in front with dog |
circa 1905-1910 |
1/9 | 64 | Rear view of house at 1510 East
Columbia |
undated |
1/9 | 65 | Front of house at 1510 East Columbia,
with yard heavily covered in snow |
1915 |
1/9 | 66 | Front of house at 1510 East Columbia,
with yard heavily covered in snow |
1916 |
Miscellaneous photographsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Box/Folder | item | ||
1/10 | 67 | Portrait of baby Boyd and Braas,
Seattle (photographer)
Probably one of the Hoffman daughters
|
circa 1895-1905 |
box-folder:oversize | |||
2/3 | 68 | Group of portraits on a board -
probably from a girls' school |
1904 |
Box/Folder | |||
1/10 | 69 | Christmas greeting card of family
sitting around fireplace |
December 1929 |
1/10 | 70 | Woman sitting on side rail of car |
undated |
1/10 | 71 | August 16, 1943 | |
1/10 | 72 | circa 1945 | |
1/10 | 73 | Battleship at sea |
circa 1940-1950 |
1/10 | 74 | Blue four-door Chevrolet
sedan |
circa 1950-1960 |
1/10 | 75 | Store building with cars in front,
Seattle |
undated |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Clothing trade--New York (State)--Ogdensburg--Photographs
- Clothing trade--Washington (State)--Seattle--Photographs
- Jewish businesspeople--Washington (State)| eattle--Photographs
- Jewish families--Washington (State)--Seattle--Photographs
- Stores, Retail--Washington (State)--Seattle--Photographs
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Personal Names
- Hoffman, Louis I., 1868-1948--Family--Photographs
- Hoffman, Louis I., 1868-1948--Photographs
Geographical Names
- Seattle (Wash.)--Commerce
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Hoffman, Grace, 1906-1992
- Hoffman, Louise I. (Louise Irene), 1912-1998